Art Institute of Chicago

The Baby House

Sir John Everett Millais

Date

1863

Medium

Etching on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper

Culture

England

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Sir John Everett Millais was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a self-titled group of British artists who broke from the 19th-century art establishment and instead drew inspiration from art predating the Renaissance. In their work, they emphasized purity of form and direct observation of nature. Much of Millais’s later work, including this etching, departed from the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and dealt with the themes of domesticity and family life that were popular with Victorian audiences.

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